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Welcome to CASCOM

Home of the Army’s Sustainment Think Tank!Combined Arms Support Command and the

Sustainment Center of Excellence Fort Lee, Virginia and Fort Jackson, South Carolina

As of: 19 April 2016

Army Watercraft

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Army Watercraft – A Force Multiplier

A flexible capability which covers diverse mission sets across mission command, sustainment, andmovement and maneuver warfighting functions.

Rebalance to Asia Pacific – Potential for long term employment of Army Watercraft as a regionally aligned mobility enabler; enables joint security cooperation and security

engagement.

• Supports movement and maneuver: strategic, operational and tactical mobility for Joint and Army forces.

• A2/AD: exploit waterborne maneuver corridors to provide commanders options IOT launch and sustain joint and Army forces along coastal littorals and through inland waterways.

• Operational maneuver: provide the JFC with operational adaptability and assured mobility through the waterborne delivery of combat-configured task organized forces and sustainment.

• Maneuver Support Vessel - Light: future variants bridge strategic to expeditionary maneuver; transition in theater to operational maneuver in support of ULO.

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Fleet Overview

Modular Causeway System (MCS)

Logistic Support Vessel (LSV)

Landing Craft Utility (LCU) 2000

Landing Craft Mechanized (LCM-8)

Large Tug (LT)

Small Tug (ST)

Barge Derrick (BD)

Roll-On/Roll-Off Discharge Facility (RRDF)

Causeway Ferry (CF)

Modular Warping Tug (MWT)

Floating Causeway (FC)

AAO (8): 5 AC/3 RC/0 APS AAO (8)*: 1 AC/2 RC/3 APS

AAO (34): 7 AC/7 RC/20 APS AAO (16): 2 AC/6 RC/8 APS

AAO (36): 9 AC/9 RC/18 APS AAO (6)*: 0 AC/2 RC/2 APS

AAO (6): 2 AC/0 RC/4 APS AAO (18)*: 5 AC/0 RC/11 APS

AAO (3): 1 AC/0 RC/2 APS AAO (3): 1 AC/0 RC/2 APS

21Years

22Years

25 Years

15 Years

44Years

16Years

• Small density fleet

• No single OEM or Depot

• Many different configurations

• Several platforms at or past EUL

• Half of the fleet in APS

* Currently short of the AAO.

(To be displaced by the MSV(L))

15Years

13Years

21Years

19Years

1988 – First Fielding 1994 – First Fielding

1990 – First Fielding 1998 – First Fielding

1967 – First Fielding 1999 – First Fielding

1996 – First Fielding

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Landing Craft Modernization

Landing Craft Mechanized (LCM-8) Maneuver Support Vessel (Light)

This is where we are………..and this is where we’re going.

Vietnam Era… …to 2025 and Beyond

Configuration: Roll through

Length: ~100 feet

Beam: ~30 feet

Draft: less than 5 feet

Speed: 15 knots

Range: 360 miles

Payload: M1A2 Abrams Tank

Configuration: Single ramp

Length: 74 feet

Beam: 21 feet

Draft: 5 feet

Speed: 9 knots

Range: 271 miles

Payload: 53 tonsM1A2 SEPv3 Abrams MBT

2 Stryker with Slat Armor

4 JLTV

Yes

Yes

Yes

No

No

No

MSV Heavy MSV Medium

Modernization and

transformation of Landing Craft

Fleet

FY25 (Projected) FY31 (Projected)

LSV LCU

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CASCOM…The Army’s Sustainment Think Tank

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Army Watercraft MTOE Overview

Harbormaster C37 Required 7 on hand(3 AC/4 USAR)

Landing Craft Mechanized Mod 2 (6)(1 AC/1 USAR/4 APS)

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Barge Derrick (4)(2 USAR/2 APS)

Small Tug (16)(2 AC/6 USAR/8 APS)

Large Tug (8)(I AC/3 USAR/4 APS)2ea in Lieu of 100 ft tugs

Causeway Ferry (3)

Warping Tug (18)

3 Modular Causeway Systems (1 AC/2 APS)

Floating Causeway (3)

Roll-on/Roll-off Discharge Facility (6)

Landing Craft Utility (34)

(7 AC/7 USAR/ 20 APS)

Logistics SupportVessel (8)(5 AC/3 USAR)

Landing Craft Mechanized Mod 1 (30)

(8 AC/8 USAR/14 APS)

Principal Fighting Functions1. Mission Command: Harbormaster, Logistics Over the Shore (LOTS) and Battle Command on the Move 2. Movement & Maneuver: Assured Access, Simultaneous/ Distributed Operations, Controlled Operational Tempo3. Sustainment: Intra-Theater Distribution, Access to Degraded & Austere Ports/Seaport, Damage/Vessel Salvage, Tugs/Firefighting

and Rescue

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116 Army WatercraftSystems

Soldiers

Fleet Size

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